Bettna is a locality situated in Flen Municipality

Flen Municipality

Flen Municipality is a municipality in Södermanland County in southeast Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Flen.The present municipality was formed in 1971 through the amalgamation of the City of Flen , the market town Malmköping and the surrounding countryside.-Localities:Figures from...

, Södermanland County

Södermanland County

Södermanland County is a county or län on the south east coast of Sweden. It borders the counties of Östergötland, Örebro, Västmanland, Uppsala, Stockholm and to the Baltic sea....

, Sweden

Sweden

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 with 415 inhabitants in 2005. It is also a parish with the same name.

The oldest part of the church was built in the 12th century. Its organ was approved by the Swedish king Gustaf III

Gustav III of Sweden

Gustav III was King of Sweden from 1771 until his death. He was the eldest son of King Adolph Frederick and Queen Louise Ulrica of Sweden, she a sister of Frederick the Great of Prussia....

 shortly before his assassination in 1792. The organ was reconstructed in 1988.

The Swedish post-impressionist

Post-Impressionism

Post-Impressionism is the term coined by the British artist and art critic Roger Fry in 1910 to describe the development of French art since Manet. Fry used the term when he organized the 1910 exhibition Manet and Post-Impressionism...

 painter Nils von Dardel

Nils von Dardel

Nils Elias Christoffer von Dardel , was a Swedish post-impressionist painter.-Biography :Nils von Dardel was born in Bettna, Södermanland, Sweden in 1888...

was born in Bettna in 1888.